A Wall Between Us and China is Just Not the Answer

Kerry Landon-Lane
3 min readJul 7, 2021

“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” is counterintuitive but the expression must have some wisdom to have stuck around all this time— like thousands of years (from The Art of War attributed to Sun Tzu in the 5th century BC).

China and United States dance together — graphic by Kerry Landon-Lane

Toppled as biggest kid on the block, outrun and snubbed as “once was” are all terrible outcomes for the U.S. in its rounds with China. But way…

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Kerry Landon-Lane

OP-ED writer, designer and artist. Most recently returned to architecture and deliberately presents the subject void of buildings.